[lbo-talk] The Great Experiment: Avnery

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

There's no reason to run this experiment again. The Israelis should have just asked 
Eisenhower's family how he did it to the Germans after WWII. Not only did the Germans 
submit to the occupation but they also agreed to collectively erase the memory of the 
deliberate starvation of millions of Germans at the hands of the US and France. The ones 
who wouldn't agree to forget at least agreed to blame the Russians and a nonexistent "world 
food shortage" instead of the US. I doubt they'll have that kind of luck with the Palestinians.

John Thornton

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On 15 Oct 2006 at 16:47, joanna wrote:

The Great Experiment 
IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by 
starving it? 

That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the 
governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, 
are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a 
definitive answer. 

The laboratory for the experiment is the Gaza Strip, and the guinea pigs are the 
million and a quarter Palestinians living there.